Okeymaker comments on An Intuitive Explanation of Solomonoff Induction - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 13 March 2015 11:32:28AM *  0 points [-]

I would like to point out a minor error here. Above stated "The position of all the subatomic particles that make up your daughter as she lives her entire life can be represented as a sequence of binary. And that really is your daughter." is of course not true.

You may get a perfect representation of your daughter, INSIDE CONTEXT*, but a representation is obviously not the object being represented. If it were it wouldn´t be a REPRESENTATION in the first place.

*0´s and 1´s are just zeroes and ones unless you interpret them, and in order to interpret, you need a context.